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Hill, Laban Carrick.
Subjects
Kool DJ Herc -- Juvenile literature.
Disc jockeys -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Disc jockeys, Black -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Rap musicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Hill, Laban Carrick.
Kool DJ Herc -- Juvenile literature.
Disc jockeys -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Disc jockeys, Black -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Rap musicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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When
the
beat
was
born
:
DJ
Kool
Herc
and the
creation
of
hip
hop
/ Laban Carrick Hill ; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III.
by
Hill, Laban Carrick.
Roaring Brook Press, c2013.
Call #:
781.649092 K82h
Subjects
Kool
DJ
Herc
-- Juvenile literature.
Disc jockeys -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Disc jockeys, Black -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Rap musicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9781596435407 (hardcover)
1596435402 (hardcover)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Summary:
Before there was
hip
hop
, there was
DJ
Kool
Herc
. On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks the musical interludes between verses longer for dancing. He called himself
DJ
Kool
Herc
and this is
When
the
Beat
Was
Born
. From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx, Laban Carrick Hill's book tells how
Kool
Herc
came to be a
DJ
, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a culture and transform the world.
Genre:
Biography, Juvenile.
Other authors:
Taylor, Theodore, III.
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Alderney Gate Public Library
Children's Black Nonfiction
781.649092 K82h
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Children's Black Nonfiction
781.649092 K82h
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Children's Black Nonfiction
781.649092 K82h
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